Toyota Demands ABC Retract Report

By

Kate Linebaugh And

Shira Ovide

Updated March 19, 2010 1:41 a.m. ET

Toyota Motor Corp. has asked ABC News for a public retraction and formal apology for an "irresponsible broadcast" of a report last month that purported to show how electronics problems in Toyota vehicles could lead to unintended acceleration.

In a letter to ABC News President David Westin dated March 11, Toyota said ABC "fabricated" a shot of a Toyota Avalon sedan in the report "to create the false and...